General Sir Richard Wakefield Goodbody, GCB, KBE, DSO (12 April 1903 – 29 April 1981) was a senior British Army officer who served as Adjutant General from 1960 to 1963.
Orde Wingate and Douglas Packard were among his fellow graduates, both of whom also rose to general officer's rank.
[2] He served in the Second World War, commanding the 2nd Armoured Brigade from 1943 to 1946 and being awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1943.
[4] He went on to become General Officer Commanding 56th (London) Armoured Division in April 1951, Director of the Royal Artillery in April 1954 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Northern Command in May 1957.
[4] In the late 1950s Goodbody chaired a Committee investigating a shortage of entrants to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.